Wire-splicer.



PATENTED 001. 15, 1907.

G. H. GOUGHNOUR.

WIRE SPLIGER.

APPLICATION I'ILED SBPT.5,1906.

GEORGEH. GOUGHNOUR, OF STUART, IOWA.

WIRE -SPLICEB.

Application filed September 5,

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. GoUGHNoUR, a citi zen of the UnitedStates, residing at Stuart, in the j county of Guthrie and State ofIowa, have invented a certain new and useful W ire-Splicer, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide a wire splicer of simple,durable'and inexpensive construction, so constructed and arranged thatit will splice a wire which is a very short distance from another wire;that is, strands used in a woven wire construction as well as wireswhich are separated a considerable distance.

A further object is to provide a device of this character which can beeasily carried in the pocket of the user.

My invention consists in certain details, in the construction,arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, wherebythe objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully setforth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device, showingthe wire which has been partially spliced in it. The handle in this viewis broken away. Fig. 2 is a plan view of my device with the handlebroken away. Fig. 3 shows in cross section the head of my splieer andthe handle in elevation, and Fig. 4 is a detail view, partly in sectionand partly in elevation, of the wire twisting sleeve.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the referencenumeral 10 to represent the handle of the splicer having a circular head11 at one end thereof. This circular head has an opening 12 in itadjacent to the handle. Extending through the head is a circular openingin which is mounted the wire twisting sleeve 13 which comprises a body14, having an opening 15 extending through its central portion, designedto receive one end of the wire to be spliced. This opening leads to theexterior of the wire twisting sleeve, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 3of the drawings, and is 1 designed to be in line with the opening 12when the device is in readiness for use, so that the wire can be slippedthrough the opening 12 into the opening 15 readily. At one end of thewire twisting sleeve I have provided an opening 16 which is formed bycutting out a circular portion 01 this wire twisting sleeve. In one ofthe members 17, formed by cutting the opening 15 in the wire twistingsleeve 13, is a lateral groove 18 designed to receive the wire which isto be wound around the wire entering the opening 15. In the exteriorportion of the wire twisting sleeve, and on thatportion of it whichenters the circular opening in the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 15, 1907.

1906. Serial No. 333,727.

head 11 is a ratchet face 19 designed to receive the pawl 20 in the head11, which is constantly maintained in engagement with the wire twistingsleeve 13 by means of the spring 21, to which said pawl is secured, saidspring being in turn secured to the head 11 by means of the screw 22.Encircling one end of the wire twisting sleeve is an annular groove 23just outside of the ratchet face 19, in which a plate 23 is designed toenter for securing the wire twisting sleeve against endwise movement asit is being rotated when said plate 23 is secured to the head 11 by thescrews 24 and 25.

In practical operation, the wires to be spliced are placed in such a waythat their ends overlap each other and one wire is then slipped into theopening 15 of the wire twisting sleeve, through the opening 12 in thehead after the wire twisting sleeve has been turned to the positionshownin Fig. 3 of the drawings. The wire to be twisted around this wirewhich has been slipped into the opening 15 is then bent so as to beplaced in the lateral groove 18, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Thehandle is then oscillated so as to rotate the wire twisting sleeve bymeans of the pawl and ratchet, above described, and thus'twist the wirein the lateral groove 18 around the wire in the opening 15, the chamber16 being adapted to receive the convolutions of the twisted wire. Whenthis has been twisted in this way sufliciently, the device is removedand the wire which has been in the lateral groove 18 is placed in theopening 15, and the wire which has been in the opening 15 is placed inthe lateral groove 18, and the operation is repeated, and whencompleted, the wire is thoroughly spliced.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States, therefor is 1. A wire splicereompising a handle provided with a head, and a cylindrical wire twistingsleeve formed of a single integral piece and rotatably mounted in saidhead, said sleeve having; one wall cut out throughout its length to forma radial slot extending from the center to the periphery thereof, atransverse groove being formed in one wall of said slot, said slotadjacent one end of the sleeve being enlarged to form a cylindricalchamber to receive the convolutions of a twisted wire.

2. A wire splicer comprising a handle provided with a head, and a wiretwisting sleeve rotatably mounted in said head, said sleeve having adiametrical slot'extending to the periphery thereof, a transverse groovebeing formed in one wall of said slot, one end of said sleeve beingprovided with an annular chamber to receive the convolutions of atwisted wire, the other end of said sleeve having an annular groove, anda plate secured to said head and enter- 111g SZIIC groove.

GEORGE H. GOUGHNOUR. Witnesses Gno. A. MARTIN, J. P. McLAUenLIN.

